Acanthocheilonema

Acanthocheilonema
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Onchocercidae
Genus: Acanthocheilonema

Acanthocheilonema is a genus within the family Onchocercidae which comprises mainly tropical parasitic worms.[1] Cobbold created the genus Acanthocheilonema with only one species, Acanthocheilonema dracunculoides, which was collected from aardwolf (Proteles cristatus: Hyaenidae) in the region of South Africa in the nineteenth century.[2] These parasites have a wide range of mammalian species as hosts, including members of Carnivora, Macroscelidea, Rodentia, Pholidota, Edentata, and Marsupialia. Many species among several genera of filarioids exhibit a high degree of endemicity in studies done on mammalian species in Japan.[3][4] However, no concrete evidence has confirmed any endemic species in the genus Acanthocheilonema.

There are about fifteen well characterized parasitic species found in genus Acanthocheilonema. A. delicata n. sp. (2013), A. dracunculoides (Cobbold 1870), A. filaria (Kou, 1958), A. mansonbahri (Nelson, 1961), A. mephitis (Webster and Beauregard, 1964), A. odendhali (Perry, 1967), A. pachycephalum (Ortlepp, 1961), A. pricei (Vaz and Pereira, 1934), A. procyonis (Price, 1955), A. reconditum (Grassi, 1889), A. sabanicolae (Eberhard and Campo-Aasen, 1986), A. setariosa (Mönnig, 1926), A. spirocauda (Leidy, 1858), A. viteae (Krepkogorskaja, 1933), and A. weissi (Seurat, 1914) are the well characterized parasitic species found all around the world in variety of hosts.[5] Some of the crucial parasites that affect a wide range of host species are discussed below.

  1. ^ Merrian Webster. 2020. https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/Acanthocheilonema#:~:text=Medical%20Definition%20of%20Acanthocheilonema,parasitic%20in%20humans%20and%20monkeys
  2. ^ Cobbold TS. "Description of a new generic type of entozoon from the aard wolf (Proteles); with remarks on its affinities, especially in reference to the question of parthenogenesis". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870;1:9–14
  3. ^ Yamaguti S. "Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan". Part 35. Mammalian nematodes II. Japanese Journal of Zoology 1941; 9:409–439.
  4. ^ Yagi K, Bain O, Shoho C. "Onchocerca suzukii n. sp. and O. skrjabini (=O. tarsicola) from a relict bovid, Capricornis crispus, in Japan". Parasite 1994; 1:349–356.
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